SEE STUDENT VIDEO!! THIS EXPEDITION IS NOW FULL AND CLOSED FOR ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK FOR 2020’s EXPEDITION. We spend days in a treeless wilderness to reflect upon Earth as our primary reality. We live alongside and drink from glacial streams. We sometimes eat the fish we catch and the berries we pick, and we share the landscape with bears, dahl sheep, caribou, ptarmigan, and golden eagles.

SEE STUDENT VIDEO!! THIS EXPEDITION IS NOW FULL AND CLOSED FOR ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK IN OCTOBER FOR 2020’s EXPEDITION. Wildness unmatched. This is bear country. This expedition takes us by bush pilot to one of the most remote places on Earth. We spend days in wilderness tracking wildlife. We reflect upon Earth as our primary reality, as the very community that shaped our intellectual perceptions and religious imagination. We live alongside and drink from glacial streams and we share the landscape with grizzlies, moose, Dahl’s sheep, golden eagles, wolves and wolverines.

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Another popular expedition with different CORE credit options. On this trip we venture into majestic wilderness. We drink from ice cold streams, swim in glacial lakes, summit a mountain, go bear-tracking off trail, venture on wolf howls, hold storytelling by campfires under an awe-inspiring Wyoming night sky, and conclude with a river adventure.

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Our most popular expedition, we explore wildness firsthand by venturing into majestic mountains to discover how Earth influences our intellectual perceptions and our sense of the divine. We drink from ice cold streams, swim in glacial lakes, summit a mountain, go bear-tracking off trail, venture on wolf howls, hold storytelling by campfires under an awe-inspiring Wyoming night sky, and conclude with a river adventure.

SEE STUDENT VIDEO!! THIS EXPEDITION IS NOW FULL AND CLOSED TO ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK FOR 2020’s EXPEDITIONS. Our most popular expedition, we explore wildness firsthand by venturing into majestic mountains to discover how Earth influences our intellectual perceptions and our sense of the divine. We drink from ice cold streams, swim in glacial lakes, summit a mountain, go bear-tracking off trail, venture on wolf howls, hold storytelling by campfires under an awe-inspiring Wyoming night sky, and conclude with a river adventure.

STUDENT VIDEO!THIS EXPEDITION IS NOW FULL AND CLOSED TO ENROLLMENT. CHECK BACK FOR THE 2020 EXPEDITIONS. In partnership with Xavier's Study Abroad and Ritter Safaris Namibia, this expedition takes us to the edge of Namibia's Kalahari. We live for eight of our 16 days on a safari ranch. We visit an exclusive rhino orphanage. We observe +2,000 year old human footprints and remains via ATV and hike to the top of a massive sand dune in the Namib Desert. We walk with San bushmen to learn about medicinal plants and animal-tracking. We learn from Namibians by working alongside them in gardens and with cattle. We safari to see giraffes, zebras and elephants, and observe lions feeding.

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Ideal for a person's first Xavier Expedition. On this First-year Seminar expedition, we visit Pueblo dwellings, ritual sites and petroglyphs of an ancient people. We hike into the Grand Canyon and through high desert plateaus, ponderosa steppes and mystical canyonlands of the Navajo Nation. We then conclude with campfire storytelling under the starry skies and a Navajo-led sweat lodge ceremony.

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